Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.