Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Security without liberty is called prison.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.