Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
Laws without morals are in vain.
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.