No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.

It is our first duty to serve society.