“ An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ”

“ There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ”

“ Beware the hobby that eats. ”

“ Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

“ Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”

“ When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ”

“ A place for everything, everything in its place. ”

“ We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ”

“ Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ”

“ Half a truth is often a great lie. ”