If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

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.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.