Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.