I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.