"The only way to retrieve the credit of the nation, is to pay off the public debts."

"I have spent my time in writing, and have not been a man of action."

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

"The greatest felicity of life is to be employed in a work, to which one is fitted by nature."

"What they do in the north, they do not in the south."