“He that won't be counseled, can't be helped.”

“He that won't be counseled can't be helped.”

“God helps them that help themselves.”

“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”

“On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it, would, with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.”

“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]”

“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.”