I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.