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

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.