Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Man is his own worst enemy.