Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

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.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.