Praise little, dispraise less.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.