You never know what you can do till you try.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.
Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.