The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

What is reading but silent conversation?

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.