Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.