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

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.