I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.