Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.