You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

Applause waits on success.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."