Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.