Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?