It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.