Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.