Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

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.

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.