Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.