An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Great hopes make everything great possible