Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

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