Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
May you live all the days of your life.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.