Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.