You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

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

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.