We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.