To Innovate Is Not To Reform.

The Perfection Of Conversation Is Not To Play A Regular Sonata, But, Like The Aeolian Harp, To Await The Inspiration Of The Passing Breeze.

It Is The Nature Of All Greatness Not To Be Exact.

A State Without The Means Of Some Change Is Without The Means Of Its Conservation.

Oppression Makes Wise Men Mad; But The Distemper Is Still The Madness Of The Wise, Which Is Better Than The Sobriety Of Fools.

When Any Work Seems To Have Required Immense Force And Labor To Effect It, The Idea Is Grand.