I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

No one ever became great by imitation.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.