A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

No man was ever great by imitation.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.