To Act Is Easy, To Think Is

We Are The Slaves Of Objects Around Us, And Appear Little Or Important According As These Contract Or Give Us Room To Expand.

He Who Is Wise Puts Aside All Claims Which May Dissipate His Attention, And Confining Himself To One Branch Excels In That.

It Is A Maxim Of Wise Government To Treat People Not As They Should Be But As They Actually Are.

What We Do Not Understand We Do Not Possess.

Sound And Sufficient Reason Falls, After All, To The Share Of But Few Men, And Those Few Men Exert Their Influence In Silence.