A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.