It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.