Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?