I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

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.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.