Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.