I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.