What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.