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.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.