As History Stands, It Is

Mr Jefferson Meant That The American System Should Be A Democracy, And He Would Rather Have Let The Whole World Perish Than That This Principle, Which To Him Represented All That Man Was Worth, Should Fail. Mr Hamilton Considered Democracy A Fatal Curse, And Meant To Stop Its Progress.

It [love] Is A Disease To Be Born With Patience, Like Any Nervous Complaint, And To Be Treated With Counter-irritants.

We Shall Some Day Catch An Abstract Truth By The Tail, And Then We Shall Have Our Religion And Our Immortality.

A Friend In Power Is A Friend Lost.

One Friend In A Lifetime Is Much; Two Are Many; Three Are Hardly Possible.