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.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

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

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?