We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

What can laws do without morals?

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.