Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.