Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.