Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.