It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.