There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.