The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.