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

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.