Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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

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.