Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

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

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

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.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.