When you taste honey, remember gall.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.