Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.