No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.