Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.