All cats look gray in the dark.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.