There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.