All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They wi…

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort t…

'Lady Cannon's gone to a matinee at the St. James's. We had tickets for the first night, but of course she wouldn't use them then. She preferred to go alone in…

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.