All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.