No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.