Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.