The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it

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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear

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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old; but to is altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without

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She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one

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Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world

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Responsibility prevents crimes

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Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings - indeed, to exist at all - must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world, an acknowledged cheat

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