I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.