Security without liberty is called prison.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

The world is run by the people who show up.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped