Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.