We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.