There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung

. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.