Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.