It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.