Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.