I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.