Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.