Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.