There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.