To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.