There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.