The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Applause abates diligence.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.