It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.