The best doctor gives the least medicines.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.