To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

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.