The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.