There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

In the beginning, all the world was America.