The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.