If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Those who attempt to level never equalize

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.