Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

He that's content hath enough.

Remember that credit is money.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation