There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.