"It is a miserable thing to be a man of sense in a country where the generality of the people are fools."

"If a man would do good, he must be able to bear evil."

"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…"

"I have always held the principle that a nation should be governed by laws, and not by the caprice of a monarch."

"Conversation is but carving; Carve for all, yourself is starving: Give no more to every Guest, Than he's able to digest; Give him always of the Prime; And but little at a Time. Carve to all but just e…"