Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.