Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.