Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.
Getting it done is my reward.
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.