Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.