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

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

God's first creature, which was light.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.