Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

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.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.