Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.

Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.