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

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

When you are done changing, you're done.

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.