Hope of gain lessens pain.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

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 Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more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.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.