Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.