Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.