Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

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

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

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.