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

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

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