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

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

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

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.