We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

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