The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.