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

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

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

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

Life is a school of probability.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.