There is no gains without pain.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.