Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

The best is the cheapest.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

That which hurts, also instructs.