Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

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