If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.