We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.