Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.