The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Delay in justice is injustice.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.