When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.