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

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

All cats are gray in the dark.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.