If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

Little leaks sink the ship.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

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.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.