Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.