"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of"
"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour"
"Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath"
"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride"
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions"
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent"
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle"
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart"
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery"
"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster"
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others"
"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome"
