It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.