The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

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

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!