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.

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Time is money.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.