I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.