A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

God helps them that help themselves.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.