After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.