We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

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.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.