A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.