If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”