"When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a pat…"

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

"God works wonders now and then; Behold! a lawyer, an honest man!"

"In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride."

"Let me add, that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."