There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.