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

Little rogues easily become great ones.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.