By Hating Vices Too Much,

A State Without The Means Of Some Change Is Without The Means Of Its Conservation.

Government Is A Contrivance Of Human Wisdom To Provide For Human Wants.

Great Men Are Never Sufficiently Shown But In Struggles.

Man Acts From Adequate Motives Relative To His Interest, And Not On Metaphysical Speculations.

Unsociable Humors Are Contracted In Solitude, Which Will, In The End, Not Fail Of Corrupting The Understanding As Well As The Manners, And Of Utterly Disqualifying A Man For The Satisfactions And Duties Of Life. Men Must Be Taken As They Are, And We Neither Make Them Or Ourselves Better By Flying From Or Quarreling With Them.