Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .