To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

To do something is in every man's power.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.