In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

The proof of gold is fire.

What can laws do without morals?

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.