Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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.
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
You never know what you can do till you try.
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.