Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.