Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Success is the residue of planning.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.