Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

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.