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

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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