Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy..

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] T….

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice ….

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books..

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour..

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones..

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach..

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obe….

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly..

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity..

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, t….

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness..

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens..

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid..

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife..

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when ….

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes..

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted..

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone..