Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.