Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.