Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.