Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.