Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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.