Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Thrift is a great revenue.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.