Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.