Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

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

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

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?

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.