I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!