Applause waits on success.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.