We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!