Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.