Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

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