An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

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

All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.