I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.