"Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most touching displays of sensibility."

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free."

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

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

"They who are in love with practice without theory are like the sailor who boards ship without rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."