A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.