By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you and everyone will be in need of your product.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.

Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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