Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.