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.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?