The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.