To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.