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

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

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

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.