It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.