No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.