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.

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

God helps them that help themselves.

What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.