If you cut the old canal, the water is apt to run farther than you have a mind to.
If you indulge the humor of novelty, you cannot put a stop to people's demands, nor govern their indiscretions at pleasure." "For my part," said he, on another occasion "my sole concern is, to manage the third and last act of my life with decency, and to make a handsome exit off the stage.

Provided this point is secured, I am not solicitous about the rest.

I am already by nature condemned to death: no man can give me a pardon from this sentence; nor so much as procure me a reprieve.

To speak my mind, and to act as my conscience directs, are two branches of liberty which I can never part with.

Sincerity in speech, and integrity in action, are entertaining qualities: they will stick by a man when every thing else takes its leave; and I must not resign them upon any consideration.