The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.