The question you need to ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how you will heal.
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.
It cannot be good to tax the Americans. . . You will lose more than you gain.
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.
To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.