I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

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.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.