Great hopes make everything great possible

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

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.

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.