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

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.