The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.