The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.