Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.