He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

Great talkers are little doers.