The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

Custom reconciles us to everything.