I never knew any man cured of inattention.

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.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

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