Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
The things which hurt, instruct.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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.