He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.