Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.