I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.