"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

"PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it."

"How long halt ye between two opinions?"

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."

"There are more of them than us."

"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."