Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Love your enemies; for they shall tell you all your faults.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats about twice as much as nature requires.
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee.
Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
Death takes no bribes.
You may delay, but Time will not.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Half the Truth is often a great Lie.
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.