I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.