Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.