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

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.