No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.