Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.