There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Love well, whip well.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?