The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.