The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

Take time for all things.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.