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

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.