Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Honesty is the best policy.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.