The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

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.