Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

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 U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.