In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.