The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

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.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.