That government that governs least governs best.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.