Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.