If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.