Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.