The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.