There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.