Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.