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

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Children are what the mothers are.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.