Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth