Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.