After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.