Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.