Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

A Beautiful verse takes birth when "U"n"I" VERSE.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

The nature of Nature is change.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

You could have a kid that is going to get in trouble a little bit, and you can teach them as much as you can, and hopefully they'll go the right way.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies