He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.