"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest."

"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."

"Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others."

"I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them."

"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."

"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."

"Your ignorance, cramps my conversation."

"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears."

"When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue."

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."

"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny."

"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."