Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

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.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?