The best doctor gives the least medicines.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.