There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

The laws are with us, and God on our side.