My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.