Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.