It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.