In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.