If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.