Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.