You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

Out of adversity comes opportunity.

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.