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.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

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

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.