Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.