We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.