It is our first duty to serve society.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.