Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.