True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!