The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

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

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.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.