Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.