Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

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.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.