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

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.