He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

None are deceived but they that confide.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.