Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.