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.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

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

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Getting it done is my reward.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.