The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.