Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

He that best understands the world, least likes it