There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

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.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.