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.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.