The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.