There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.