The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?