If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

What you would seem to be, be really.