When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

The city is recruited from the country.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Great men are sincere.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.