When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.