Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

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

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

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

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.