Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. - Edmund Burke

The plunder of the few would, indeed, give but a share inconceivably small in the distribution to the many. But the many are not capable of making this calculation; and those who lead them to rapine never intend this distribution.

he was, indeed, arrived at that pitch of greatness, that the means of his ruin could only be found in his own family.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.