The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.