All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

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.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.