What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.