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

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

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

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.