Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.