People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.