Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging that the pilot is made for the sake of the ship, her lading, and her crew, who are always the owners in the political vessel; as to say that kingdoms were instituted for kings, not kings for kingdoms.

The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.