“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.