Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

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

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.