The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!