Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind is brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
The desire of happiness in general is so natural to us that all the world is in pursuit of it.