Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.