To Be Proud Of Knowledge Is To

Historians Relate Not So Much What Is Done As What They Would Have Believed.

A Word To The Wise Is Enough, And Many Words Won't Fill A Bushel.

You Will See In This My Notion Of Good Works, That I Am Far From Expecting To Merit Heaven By Them. By Heaven We Understand A State Of Happiness, Infinite In Degree, And Eternal In Duration. I Can Do Nothing To Deserve Such Rewards... Even The Mixed Imperfect Pleasures We Enjoy In This World, Are Rather From God's Goodness Than Our Merit, How Much More Such Happiness Of Heaven!

The Learned Fool Writes His Nonsense In Better Language Than The Unlearned, But It Is Still Nonsense.

We Are More Thoroughly An Enlightened People, With Respect To Our Political Interests, Than Perhaps Any Other Under Heaven. Every Man Among Us Reads, And Is So Easy In His Circumstances As To Have Leisure For Conversations Of Improvement And For Acquiring Information.