A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.