Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.