A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.
When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?