Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.