He who writes badly thinks badly

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

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.