Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money; hence money is better than counsel.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.
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.
May you live all the days of your life.