Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to ...be certain, except death and taxes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been em...ployed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements ... might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was e...ver blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us s...eriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, ...and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every ...man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of huma...n knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »