Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

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

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.