Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

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

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.