All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.