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

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.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

War never leaves where it found a nation.