Take things always by their smooth handle.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Without books, I would certainly die.

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.