Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.