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

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.