For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.