The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath…

To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

The most effectual of all ways for making ourselves feel morally whole, and for attaining to the greatest heights of self-complacency, is to fall upon others for the sins of which we are ourselves guilty.

More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the …

Forts, cannons and foreign aid will not help unless every man himself knows that he is the guard of his country.

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.