Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.