There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.