Power Should Be A Check On Power.

To Lend Money Without Interest, Is Certainly An Action Laudable And Extremely Good; But It Is Obvious, That It Is Only A Counsel Of Religion, And Not A Civil Law.

Passion Makes Us Feel, But Never See Clearly.

It Is Difficult For The United States To Be All Of Equal Power And Extent.

They Who Love To Inform Themselves, Are Never Idle. Though I Have No Business Of Consequence To Take Care Of, I Am Nevertheless Continually Employed. I Spend My Life In Examining Things: I Write Down In The Evening Whatever I Have Remarked, What I Have Seen, And What I Have Heard In The Day: Every Thing Engages My Attention, And Every Thing Excites My Wonder: I Am Like An Infant, Whose Organs, As Yet Tender, Are Strongly Affected By The Slightest Objects.

I Shall Ever Repeat It, That Mankind Are Governed Not By Extremes, But By Principals Of Moderation.