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.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

He that's secure is not safe.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.