I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.