The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Youth is everywhere in place.
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
Invention breeds invention.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.