“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”

“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

“They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”

“A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”