Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.