May you live all the days of your life.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Books, the children of the brain.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.