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

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty