If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

He that's secure is not safe.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.