My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.