A Very Great Part Of The Mischiefs

It Is In The Relaxation Of Security; It Is In The Expansion Of Prosperity; It Is In The Hour Of Dilatation Of The Heart, And Of Its Softening Into Festivity And Pleasure, That The Real Character Of Men Is Discerned.

Taste And Elegance, Though They Are Reckoned Only Among The Smaller And Secondary Morals, Yet Are Of No Mean Importance In The Regulations Of Life. A Moral Taste Is Not Of Force To Turn Vice Into Virtue; But It Recommends Virtue With Something Like The Blandishments Of Pleasure, And It Infinitely Abates The Evils Of Vice.

Religion Is The Basis Of Civil Society, And The Source Of All Good And Of All Comfort.

Power Gradually Extirpates From The Mind Every Humane And Gentle Virtue.

Whenever A Separation Is Made Between Liberty And Justice, Neither, In My Opinion, Is Safe.