If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

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

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.