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.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.