Some Good Qualities Are Like The Senses:

Those Who Are Themselves Incapable Of Great Crimes Are Ever Backward To Suspect Others.

It's Easier To Know People In General Than One Person In Particular

On Why I Don't Trust Democracy Without Extremely Powerful Systems Of Accountability And Recall What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often Only Disguised Ambition - Which Despises Small Interests To Gain Great Ones.

He That Fancies Such A Sufficiency In Himself That He Can Live Without All The World Is Greatly Mistaken; But He That Imagines Himself So Necessary That Other People Cannot Live Without Him Is A Great Deal More Mistaken.

Of All Our Faults, The One That We Excuse Most Easily Is Idleness.