A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.