It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.