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

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.