“ All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ”

“ It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ”

“ Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. ”

“ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ”

“ Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. ”

“ Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ”

“ People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ”

“ Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ”

“ Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ”

“ Our patience will achieve more than our force. ”