“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game”

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs”

“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit”

“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”

“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world”