Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

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

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.