The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.