An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

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.

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

The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.