Great hopes make everything great possible

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.