Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!