Henry St. John

“Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive: party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.”

“Eloquence that leads to truth is the most beautiful of all the arts.”

“History is philosophy teaching by examples.”

“An honest man is the noblest work of God.”

“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”

“The love of a country is an aggregate of the love which we bear to our families, to our friends, and to the various objects which attach us to the soil.”

“Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in a nutshell.”

“I think that the spirit of liberty is a spirit of jealousy.”

“The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.”

“Let us be on our guard against acquisitions, through zeal, which are beyond our power.”

“It is the nature of parties to be in perpetual agitation.”

“Self-love is the prompter of so many actions, that it is surprising we are not more suspicious of its influence.”

“They who govern most make least noise.”

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”

“There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as every day's complaint, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.”