Reason and truth will prevail at last

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.