It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

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

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.