I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

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

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.