An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.