The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.