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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.