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.

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Stand firm, don't flutter!