He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

A hated government does not long survive.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.