If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.