To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

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.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

Let each new year find you a better person.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.