But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.