The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

All good things are wild and free.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

That government is best which governs least.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.