Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.