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

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.