I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Little boats should keep near shore

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

You may delay, but time will not.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!