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

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.