There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.