Force Shites Upon Reason's Back.

This Gave Me Occasion To Observe, That When Men Are Employ'd They Are Best Contented. For On The Days They Work'd They Were Good-natur'd And Chearful; And With The Consciousness Of Having Done A Good Days Work They Spent The Evenings Jollily; But On The Idle Days They Were Mutinous And Quarrelsome, Finding Fault With Their Pork, The Bread, And In Continual Ill-humour. (autobiography, 1771)

Those Who Desire To Give Up Freedom In Order To Gain Security Will Not Have Either One.

The Golden Age Was Never The Present Age.

Each Year One Vicious Habit Discarded, In Time Might Make The Worst Of Us Good.

One Today Is Worth Two Tomorrows. Lost Time Is Never Found Again. Time Is Money. Dost Thou Love Life? Then Do Not Squander Time, For That's The Stuff That Life Is Made Of. You May Delay, But Time Will Not.