Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.