Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.