He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.