When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

Nothing preaches better than the act.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

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.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion