Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

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

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.