My voice is still for war.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.