I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.