For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?