Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

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.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

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.

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

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.