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

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.