He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

Beware the hobby that eats.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

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