The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.