Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.