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.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.