The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.