We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.