Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

War never leaves where it found a nation.