Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!