By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

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?

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.