The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.