The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.