Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.