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

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.