Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

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.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.