Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.