If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.

My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.

The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.

The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.

You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny