Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.