Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather..

Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them suf….

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?.

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct..

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine..

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master..

Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all..

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imag….

God helps them that help themselves..

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a sec….

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, f….

Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a mill….

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing..

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go..

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self..

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top..

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us..

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years..

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have ….

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a ….

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be oblige….