I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

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

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.