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

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.