I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.