If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

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.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.