Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
Without bread all is misery.
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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.
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.