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

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Mine is better than ours.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.