There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.