Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

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

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.