A vow is a snare for sin

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.