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.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

All cats are gray in the dark.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.