This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I am in the prime of senility.

Honesty is the best policy.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!