You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

I say, break the law.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.