The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.