Finesse Is The Best Adaptation Of Means

That Is The Best Government Which Desires To Make The People Happy, And Knows How To Make Them Happy.

None Of The Modes By Which A Magistrate Is Appointed, Popular Election, The Accident Of The Lot, Or The Accident Of Birth, Affords, As Far As We Can Perceive, Much Security For His Being Wiser Than Any Of His Neighbours. The Chance Of His Being Wiser Than All His Neighbours Together Is Still Smaller.

A Kind Of Semi-solomon, Half-knowing Everything, From The Cedar To The Hyssop.

The End Of Government Is The Happiness Of The People.

I Shall Cheerfully Bear The Reproach Of Having Descended Below The Dignity Of History.