Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

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

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.

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

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.