Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

Remember that credit is money.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.