Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.