It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

A penny saved is a penny earned.