My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.