Where there are large powers with little ambition (which will happen sometimes, though seldom) nature may be said to have fallen short of her purpose… - Henry Taylor

Considering the temptations under which politicians are placed, of changing their opinions, or rather their professions of opinion, from motives of self interest, the world will not give them credit for motives of honest conviction, unless when the change shall be to their manifest loss and disadvantage.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.