There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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.