Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Language is the dress of thought.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.