God helps them that help themselves.

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.