History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.