The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great