We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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

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