Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.