Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.
A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.