If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

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

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.