I cannot act as if all men were unfaithful because some are so; nor believe that all will betray me, because some do. I had rather be the victim of occasional infidelities, than relinquish my general confidence in the honesty of man.

how can expedition be expected from a body which we have saddled with an hundred lawyers, whose trade is talking?

not in our day; but at no distant one, we may shake a rod over the heads of all, which may make the stoutest of them tremble. but I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I find more amusement in studies to which I was always more attached, and from which I was dragged by the events of the times in which I have happened to live.