Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'