What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

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.