“ The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. ”

“ Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. ”

“ For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ”

“ Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind. ”

“ Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. ”

“ A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ”

“ I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. ”

“ When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ”

“ We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ”

“ Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. ”