If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

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.