Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.