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May you live all the days of your life.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.