A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

There is no little enemy

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?