We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.