A friend in need is a friend indeed!

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.