Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.