Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.