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.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

I am in the prime of senility.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.