Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

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

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.