If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.