Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.