When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Security without liberty is called prison.