All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.