The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.