My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty . . . it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."

"Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly in misspending time."

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

"To err is nature, to rectify error is glory."

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.