People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.