God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Laws without morals are in vain.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.