Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.