To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.

In the dark, all cats are grey.