Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.