Where mystery begins religion ends.

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.