I am lord of myself, accountable to none..

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gent….

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish..

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies..

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven..

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist..

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful..

Remember that credit is money..

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief..

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies..

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong..

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery..

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds..

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another..

Half-wits talk much, but say little..

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking..

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without ….

When you are done changing, you're done..

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them..

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do..