Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.