In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.