Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

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