The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

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?