He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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