The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

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

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.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.