If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.