A precedent embalms a principle.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

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

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Information upon points of practical politics.