"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…"

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advan…"

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."