I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.