Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.