The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.