La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

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.