The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.