He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
The birthday of a new world is at hand.
Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.