Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.