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.

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

There is no gains without pain.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.