Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.