I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.