How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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."

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.