The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.