There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

The only time not wasted is wasted time.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.