The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.