The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Money is economic power.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.