We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject… - Adam Ferguson

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.

Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.