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.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.