No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.