Take things always by their smooth handle.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.