An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.