The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.