Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.