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.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.