At a great pennyworth pause a while.

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.