You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.