All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian….

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do me….

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want….

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write..

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being….

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has….

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to a….

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt..

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Mo….

You never know what you can do till you try..

I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker o….

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with ….

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense….

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reac….

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people;….

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and u….

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent..

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full ….

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility..

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had f….

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach..