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

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.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

Laws without morals are in vain.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.