Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Success is the residue of planning.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.