Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

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.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.