"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."

"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security."

"He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

"I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left."