Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.