Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

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 is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.