An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.