How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

The more we bestow the richer we become.