A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool..

Beware the hobby that eats..

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned..

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by….

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God..

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creature….

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his..

Make use of your friends by being of use to them..

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars..

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never..

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes..

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter..

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?".

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices..

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish..

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies..

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account..

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them..

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy..

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence..