All industry must be excited by hope.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.