You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.