To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.