He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Force shites upon Reason's Back.