A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.
Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.
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.