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

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

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

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

Books, the children of the brain.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

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

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

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

May you live all the days of your life.

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

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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.

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

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.