Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

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."

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.