It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Always the same thing.

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.

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.