Distrust And Caution Are The Parents Of

The First Mistake In Public Business Is The Going Into It.

It Seems To Me, That If Statesmen Had A Little More Arithmetic, Or Were Accustomed To Calculation, Wars Would Be Much Less Frequent.

I Have So Much Faith In The General Government Of The World By Providence That I Can Hardly Conceive A Transaction Of Such Momentous Importance [as The Framing Of The Constitution] ... Should Be Suffered To Pass Without Being In Some Degree Influenced, Guided, And Governed By That Omnipotent, Omnipresent, And Beneficent Ruler In Whom All Inferior Spirits Live And Move And Have Their Being.

To Follow By Faith Alone Is To Follow Blindly.

A Penny Saved Is Twopence Dear; A Pin A Day 's A Groat A Year.