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

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.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.