A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.