To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

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

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.