In Success Be Moderate. Humility Makes Great

He That Is Good For Making Excuses Is Seldom Good For Anything Else.

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.

The English Love An Insult. It's Their Only Test Of A Man's Sincerity.

If We Can Sleep Without Dreaming, It Is Well That Painful Dreams Are Avoided. If, While We Sleep, We Can Have Any Pleasing Dreams, It Is As The French Say, Tant Gagne, So Much Added To The Pleasure Of Life.

Nor Is It Of Much Importance To Us To Know The Manner In Which Nature Executes Her Laws; 'tis Enough To Know The Laws Themselves.