Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

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.

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.