Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

Nothing preaches better than the act.