When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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