How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

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.