As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Like associates with like.
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.