Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

Falsehood is for a season.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

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

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.