I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.