Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.