Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.