It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.