Little things affect little minds.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

There is no gambling like politics.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.