Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.