Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.