Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

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

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.