Avarice is the vice of declining years.

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.

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

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

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.