Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.