"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

"There are few things more to be lamented than that a man who has got an estate, makes not a better use of it for the good of his family, and to the advantage of the public."

"It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed b…"

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description."