an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.