Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.