There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.