He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?