My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.