Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.