On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.