There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

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.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.