In politics, as in religion, it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

It is an easy and a vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them, but, essentially, to benefit and to improve them is a work fraug…

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make m…