Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

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

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.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.