Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.