Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.