The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.