For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.