When men are employed they are best contented.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?