To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.