Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.