We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Caution

Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Complaints and Complaining

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Curiosity

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Example

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other

Finance

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Inheritance

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

Liberty

The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.

Manners

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Obstinacy

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Patience

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Perseverance

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Power

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

Safety

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Society

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Tolerance

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Unity

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Wealth

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.