"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

"A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

"Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia."

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."

"Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue."

"What we should have fought for was representation without taxation."

"The truth knocks on the door and you say,'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."

"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."