Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.