The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.