Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.