The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.