And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

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.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.