In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.