Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider