Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

Do not fear mistakes.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.